NEW INVITRO SEMINAR

SEMINAR ON DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE EPHEMERALITY OF THE NEWS

The next INVITRO seminar focuses on the ephemerality of the news, from factuality to alternative facts and, in this sense, aims to contribute to the debate by providing analysis and perspectives that allow us to better understand and deal with the dynamics and the space that the media provides us nowadays.

The session “Digital media and the ephemerality of news: from factuality to alternative facts” takes place online, on 21 June 2023, at 14h00 (Lisbon time), 10h00 (São Paulo, Brazil), 21h00 (Macau).

The expression “alternative facts” became notorious in 2017 when it was used by Kellyanne Conway, adviser to US President Trump. In an interview, confronted with facts presented by a journalist, he made an attempt to replace these factual arguments with statements that could not be proven, thus influencing the public debate. In other words, the public debate has been influenced by the use of “alternative facts”, when we had as fundamental the safe ground of verifiable factuality, something that has led us to phenomena such as the proliferation of totally false news or distorted facts, or the systematic normalization of ephemeral news while we witness the apparent collapse of codes of ethics and deontology in the construction of news in the contemporary digital fluid media space.

The aim of the seminar is to challenge teachers, researchers, journalists, students, and the general public to share their experiences, as well as concrete cases of the media space in the face of the phenomena of “alternative facts”, systematized disinformation, and volatility of the news, where factuality is subsumed in the apparent normality of the non-need for verification of authenticity and the contradictory.

The seminar is free of charge and grants a certificate of participation upon registration here.

More information here.